Strength from Weakness: Wrestling with God
Thursday, February 12, 2026, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
This is a follow-up to the Healing the Wounds of Trauma program, which Peoples Church has been offering online at least once a year since 2021. Like the other program, we will be offering this through Zoom.
The follow-up program Strength from Weakness is a bit different, but very similar. The format is similar, the topics are more advanced, and we build upon what we learned in the first program. However, it is a bit less structured in that it does not meet weekly and the units do not need to be done in order. As long as you have completed the basic program you can pick and choose which units in the second part you attend. You will need to sign up for each unit individually.
We hope to offer all the units over the course of the next year or so, but will only probably only offer one or two a month on various topics, and we are planning to sprinkle in some other supplemental programs as well. We will be offering some units that are open to those who have not attended the first program.
This is the first unit in part two, and it builds upon what we learned about suffering, and about Job.
We will:
- Discover how to make better sense of our experiences of suffering and faith.
- Learn that grieving may involve wrestling with God.
- See that wrestling with God can be an evidence of faith rather than doubt.
- Practice letting go of trying to control God.
- Experience a time of resting in God’s love.
Registration deadline: Feb. 10th
Registration link: https://forms.gle/VCmFWPMhupgCZgiT6
Any questions? You can email Diane at
For those who have not attended the first program and would like to do so, there are a few options.
- The Canadian Bible Society is offering the program from March 30th to May 4th on Monday afternoons from 3 - 5:30 PM EST. You can read about it and register here.
- We (the Montreal team) are also planning to offer an evening group in the spring. Details will follow. Dates and times to be determined.
- We will probably also offer it again in the fall, but we have no details for that yet.
Those who complete the first program will be eligible to participate in units from this second part.
The units in part 2 are:
- Wrestling with God.
- Good and evil
- Generational trauma and blessing
- Shame and guilt
- Using our feelings for good
- Difficult conversations
- Pursuing reconciliation
- Fulfilling your purpose in life
- Advocating for justice
For those interested in the optional lesson on conflict from the first program, which we have not yet offered, it is being offered online by a group in the US on Feb. 24th. There are no pre-requisites for this one.
https://facilitators.traumahealinginstitute.org/events?id=a0ce3fcc-7e0b-47da-8aea-b98c54306a0a